My original concept for Space was to take out as much colour as possible. It was a clinical, controlled environment, so no colour. That was why it was all cream and beige, so that when you went onto a planet surface, I could do what I liked with colour. And looking at the show again, it worked. It really did.

And then there's the Eagle Transporter, one of the most distinctive, coolest looking spacecraft the world has ever seen, complete with that pointy front section and those four boxy protrustions over the landing pads. It's got its own Facebook fan page, tons of model building projects, and a fan forum. It looks absolutely nothing like any other spaceship you've ever seen.

And that's really just scratching the surface. Space: 1999 may have fallen short in its attempts to recapture the magic of 2001: A Space Odyssey (as Stanley Kubrick, at least, believed). But at the very least, it did create its own uniquely clean-looking, unmistakable sense of style, and its own aesthetic. Moonbase Alpha always seemed like one of the coolest spaces in space.